[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "No mandates for PFOS contamination" in Guam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No mandates for PFOS contamination

By John O'Connor 
Guam Daily Post 
October 31, 2016

While the Guam Environmental Protection Agency is workin the U.S. Department of the Navy to determine the source o perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) contamination in water w the former Naval Air Station Agana - now the A.B. Won Pat International Airport - the local regulatory agency isn't nece able to impose sanctions or mandates on whatever entity is responsible for the contamination, according to GEPA Administrator Walter Leon Guerrero.

Guam Waterworks Authority General Manager Miguel Bord told members of the Consolidated Commission on Utilities on Oct. 19 that GEPA was in talks with the U.S. Departmen Defense to determine potential responsibility on the part of Navy for PFOS contamination of the NAS-1 water well in Ti The property where Guam's commercial airport now stands under military control up until 1995.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.postguam.com/news/local/no-mandates-for-pfos-contamination/article_e10c9b5c-9e3e-11e6-b561-1b817046ec2a.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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